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Thursday, September 08, 2011

Human Trafficking By the Numbers

Federally funded task forces opened 2,515 suspected incidents of human trafficking for investigation between January 2008 and June 2010.

Federal agencies were more likely to lead labor trafficking investigations (29%) than sex trafficking investigations (7%).

Among the 389 incidents confirmed to be human trafficking by high data quality task forces.

There were 488 suspects and 527 victims.

More than half (62%) of the confirmed labor trafficking victims were age 25 or older, compared to 13% of confirmed sex trafficking victims.

Confirmed sex trafficking victims were more likely to be white (26%) or black (40%), compared to labor trafficking victims, who were more likely to be Hispanic (63%) or Asian (17%).

Four-fifths of victims (83%) in confirmed sex trafficking incidents were identified as U.S. citizens, while most confirmed labor trafficking victims were identified as undocumented aliens (67%) or qualified aliens (28%).

Most confirmed human trafficking suspects were male (81%). More than half (62%) of confirmed sex trafficking suspects were identified as black, while confirmed labor trafficking suspects were more likely to be identified as Hispanic (48%).